Wilfred Buck (2024)
- Directed by
- Lisa Jackson
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
The film follows Cree astronomer Wilfred Buck as he tells his life story from a difficult childhood to becoming a knowledge keeper of Indigenous star lore. It explains how he teaches traditional First Nations ways of understanding the sky.
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What happens
Wilfred Buck is a 2024 Canadian documentary film, directed by Lisa Jackson. The film is a portrait of Wilfred Buck, a Cree man from Manitoba who survived a troubled and impoverished upbringing to become a celebrated keeper and teacher of traditional First Nations approaches to astronomy. The film is partially based on Buck's own 2021 memoir I Have Lived Four Lives. The film premiered in March 2024 at the CPH:DOX festival in Denmark, and had its Canadian premiere at the 2024 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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